“The number of dead cultivators is going up.” the System said and Jin started to scratch his head. He knew that there was nothing he could do unless he decided to put up an anti magic barrier to protect the cultivators from being teleported into the rat’s kill zone.
Thankfully, the cultivators did not think that way and assumed that it was part of the dungeon instance’s design. The Pandarens who were killed mercilessly by the Demon Rats could only assume that they should not be in those magic circles and decided to write it in the forums.
With the Royal Zodiac Heads leaving the dungeon instance and returning back to their respective workplace (with the exception of Se Chang Chang), there were no strong supporters to assist the rest of the Pandarens other than themselves. So by writing in the forums, people who were defeated and resting in the Luxury Recovery Instance knew what to expect when they went for their second round.
It was as if the Pandarens were learning not only about the Demon Rats but teaching the rest who had yet to enter the dangers they could encounter. And the infamous Mr Know It All had already begun to compile all this information and put it up as a major big post for everyone to view.
Now that Jin knows the true identity of Mr Know It All as well as he being part of the Panda Inc Executive, the dungeon supplier had bestowed him the title of a Super User, allowing him to use the System to help edit the posts and giving everyone information that was required for the fight. Normally, Kong Rong would need to spend lots of time editing and pasting the information into the forums but with the aid of the System, the changes in the forum’s posts were fast.
When one wonders why Kong Rong, the upcoming Royal Zodiac Dragon Head had the time to play the role of Mr Know It All, the only answer he gave was that it was his hobby. But since Jin knew his other job aside from being the Head of the Royal Zodiac Clan, he understood that it was to keep his information gathering skills up to date.
“What do you think of this mass teleport skill that the Pandarens are up against?” Jin asked Kong Rong when he learned that the latter was updating his forum posts.
“Not outside our expectations. I mean, we did use something similar with those crazy train attacks. Teleporting trains from our world to their world and forcefully assault them without going through their external defences. It’s a tactic I too would like to use in the future and since they have the means and abilities to do so, the Demon Rats copied what we did and used a divide and conquer method to kill us. It’s not surprising at all.” Kong Rong said while adding contributions to players who had updated the forums as well as tipping them a little for their information. (which he had verified alongside the System.)
“Besides, it’s not our fault that our Pandaren are weak. Most of the new ones never went through any war or real life battles before and using this platform to allow them to experience war is one of the fastest ways to let them grow.” Kong Rong added and said that everyone could only believe that this is a ‘damn real dungeon instance’ and not another world.
“To them, it’s just another game while we know that this is not the case.” Jin sighed as he was only worried that the ‘difficulty spike’ was too high for them. Yet he had forgotten that aside from the realism his dungeon instances were infamous for, so were the challenges that his ‘dungeons’ had provided.
The cultivators who were attracted to his store were itching for not just sightseeing but a challenge that would help them grow from their current slump in cultivation. Upon learning through many people’s word of mouth (as well as the internet), most of the new customers know that this would definitely be the best chance to get out of their slump and break through to the next level.
And that was evident when the System collected data of the numerous breakthroughs from Grade 1 to Grade 2s when the Pandarens were defeated and sent to the recovery instance. It was as if they were enlightened when they finally knew how their battle techniques were supposed to work and how to overcome challenges.
The System also did something out of its own ‘goodwill’ by giving a small reward of coins as if to spur the Pandarens who had levelled up despite being defeated to have another try on the Demon Rats. And so far, it was working rather well as the morale of the cultivators continued to be maintained at an all high, prompting them to continue the assault against the Northern Capital.
On the other hand, with the forums and cultivators sharing information, people started to be more coordinated especially when the Pandamonium App had a new feature called the party finder. The System can either automatically put a group of people wanting to join the raid into one party based on their classes to get a balanced one or the Pandarens are able to set requirements so people can join when they meet their requirements.
As the latter provided some restrictions, some of them had to wait a little longer to join in the fun, else they could allow the System to do some matchmaking for them as well at no cost, although the consequences were for the rest of the party members to bear since they cannot reject any which the System had recommended. At the same time, they could hire the Pandamonium ‘NPCs’ to do the fight which the System had already fine tuned from previous dungeon instances and they were lower tier minions such as the Southern soldiers that were trained not too long ago which Jin and the System had taken in. (Although they could use the System real ‘NPCs’, it was cheaper in terms of resource management with their minions.’ But with these quick party finding solutions, the Pandarens can finally have a fighting chance with a balanced party.
And yet, Jin was not sending any more of his minions other than the ones who were fighting against the Demon Rats in the East and West regions. This was because he knew that the surface was just a beginning as they have an entire city…or perhaps a region worth of rats right under their feet going with life as per normal.
